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Called Jake today & he is definately not ready to come home! This trip means alot to Jake. Thanks be to God for allowing him to go & Thank You to everyone He used to help make it happen.

From todays email-

Malachi and I parted paths today. He went to the well drilling and I went to the PTI with Mr Anthony. Joe and I will go out there later. In othr news, Hannah is feeling bad.
Whilst Mr Anthony and I were walking down to the store earlier (there are “stores” on almost every corner: small tin buildings with an open window where you just walk up and say what you want, mostly little essentials and commodities like toilet paper, bottled water, ketchup, and of course soft drinks) we met a blind lady in extremely shabby clothes, being led by a man of like appearance, who held her hand toward people for her. It reminded me, as i am reminded hour by hour, That there is more to this land than just beautiful mountains and birds (and freaky cultural restaurants). There is enormous poverty: like the beggars that are seen occasionally, and the people who live on next to nothing in houses made of sticks and tin. But i disagree so much with all the people who have never been here but think they know. These people don’t need their government to be sent more American money. They need the gospel. They need people. And its not just Ethiopia. I was listening to Joe and Mr. Anthony talking earlier about the need for wells all over the world. You know, people like Americans look at somewhere like Ethiopia and see a world segregated from the rest of us. They see a country that requires attention because the civilization isn’t on level with the rest of of us. but it’s really America who is segregated. We need to realize that most of the world isn’t that much like us. Ethiopia is not set apart; neither is India, or Sudan, or other such places. I would be the last person in the world to say that it is inherently wrong for a nation to be prosperous; I’m not headed in that direction. But Americans need to see that Ethiopia isn’t cursed: they are blessed

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